Trent is perfecting the 3 notes he knows on the saxophone.  Oh my, can I just say that a beginning saxophone is a sound to behold.  Only slightly less squeaky than the clarinet, and perhaps a bit more moaning than a dying cow.  Oh well, he's excited about it, though, so I guess thats the important thing, right?  Maybe Max on the drums wont be as big of an issue as I thought it would. 

I don't think I mentioned that my boys both got new glasses last week.  Max's first pair, Trent's third.  Trent's aren't much different, and I was going to just put new lenses in his old ones, but they really encouraged us to get a new pair, so he would have a back up.  Max on the other hand, is about as cute as they come with his big ole eyes.  The glasses make them look even bigger.  Gotta love that about Steve's job.  It would have cost us a huge chunk of change to do eye appts and glasses for both of them.  Now what we all really need is a trip to the dentist. 

I was going to order my Tapestry of Grace curriculum this week, but I think that's going to get put off for another month.  We aren't quite ready for it yet, anyway, but I am enough of a planner, that I really want to have it in hand and be reading everything I can get my hands on for several weeks before we are ready for it.  We may take the month of December off entirely.... It really depends on the new baby. So, who knows, it may even wait until January.  I was thinking about doing a "unit" type study with all the kids on the different holiday celebrations... ie Hannikah, Kwanza, commercial Christmas (ie SANTA),  and CHRISTmas.  It would be fun to see how other countries celebrate Christ's birth specifically, and I want them to know what we believe, why, and why the other celebrations are meaningless to us as Christians.  I really still have no idea what Kwanza is.  I think it's an African thing maybe.

A good friend of mine called me the other night, and told me that she miscarried last week.  This would have been her second pregnancy.  She has sweet twins that are almost 3.  She, of course,  is bummed, but sees it as God's sovereign hand in her life.  Another of my friends recently went through miscarriage, and responded in the same way.  I love having God-centered friends.  It definately helps keep me on track.